On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Torrent isn't a very good transfer method for things which are not > fairly popular as it has a fair amount of overhead. > > The wikimedia download site should be able to saturate your internet > connection in any case… But some ISP's throttle TCP-connections (either by design or by simple oversubscription and random packet drops), so many small connections *can* yield a better result for the end user. And if you are so unlucky as to having a crappy connection from your country to the download-site, maybe, just maybe someone in your own country already has downloaded it and is willing to share the torrent... :) I can saturate my little 1M ADSL-link with torrent-downloads, but forget about getting throughput when it comes to HTTP-requests... if it's in the country, in close proximity and the server is willing, then *maybe*.. but else.. no way. Not everyone is very well connected, unfortunately... /Stigmj _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
